Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1887-06-29

serious LIouOle H feared. Inc road was
never built
The most Important business block
in New Orleans was burned on tho 23rd
The fire broke out in q wholesale drug
house.
Burglars entered a Chicago boarding
house and chloroformed and robbed twenty
inmates Of several hundred dollars
At Irondale, Ala, on the 22nd, &
Methodist Minister killed a man who insult
ed his wife.
IN THE EAST.
Wall Street was suffused with excite
ment on Friday and stocks were shaded
down in ratio that made the bears tremble-
For an hour or two the situation was in the
nature of panic, and the air was full Of
sensations, among them that Jay Gould was
dead, that Cyrus Field, Sage and others
were in a rev, but, all these men appeared
on the scene as buyers and the sulphur
which had impregnated the atmosphere, in
great measure disappeared, though the
day closed with various stocks more or less
deprecated, but none ruinously. As he
was going home Jay Gould was caught by
a reporter to whom he said that in his
opinion the worst had unquestionably
passed, that he could not state the exact
cause of the disturbance, 'the market was
raided, for one thing, and scare was
created. They had Mr.. Field broke and
mended, but they found out that Mr.; Field
Mr.. Gould said the street stood the shock
admirably, and he regarded the business
condition of the country good and par
ticularly in the west.
DR.. E. Fl. Duggan, one of the
wealthiest and best known physicians of
Williamsburg, N J.,was deliberately shot and
killed by George Weidler while leaving a
patients house. The murderer sauntered
up to the house while the doctor was in
side. When DR.. Duggan came out Weidler
versed in low tones for a moment. Weidler
then drew revolver, and, taking deliberate
aim at the DOCTORS head. fired. The doctor
started to run, but Weidler fired two more
shots and he fell dead in the street. Weidler
quietly submitted to arrest. The murderer
would only say it was family matter, and
this has given rise to mention Of the prison
er's sister in connection with the affair.
A good deal ofexcitement was caused
at Flushing, N. Y, Saturday night by the
ducking of Charles Doescher, respectable
married man, in the basin of the village
recognize in the dark, but who are supposed
to be members of a vigilance committee
This organization was formed two years
ago, aud it's object is stated to be the punish
ment by ducking of any married man found
out after II O'Clock unaccompanied by his
wife. Doescher was thoroughly drenched.
In their weekly trade review Dun
& Co., of New York say: General reports
of business at nearly all points are highly
encouraging and the increasing prospect of
good crops adds to the prevailing con-
fdence. Collections are generally fair to
good and the volume Of business good for
the season. The business failures during
the last seven days number for the United
States, III; for Canada, 26; total 1917; as
compared with 2l3 last week and 1852 in the
corresponding week Of last year.
Nine. Bernhardt, with Mr.. Grau,
her manager, and her entire company,
including her tiger cubs, sailed for Europe
on the 18th. The tour just ended is the
longest ever undertaken by any company.
It lasted fourteen months, and covered
South and Central America and the United
States. There were 252 performances. and
the gross receipts being nearly 81 900,
and the profits $5OO,OOO.
A Scranton, Pa, dispatch to the N. Y.
Times says that Miss Anna Dickinson has
been in precarious condition and narrow
" escaped death. She is now thought to
have good chance for recovery. The crisis
followed two years. period of gradually
increasingillness.
Three six story buildings, occupied
by cigar and shoe manufacturers took fire al
2:15 a. M, on the 23rd, aad were destroyed
The loss was about q quarter OF q million
dollars. !. &.